Thesis Proposal

Television shows have become an intellectually, stimulating and challenging force for children since the past 20 years. Recently, the use of television as an educational tool for healthy entertainment has developed kids’ cognitive abilities in remarkable new ways.

Primary Sources:

Sesame Street TV show by Jim Henson (1969-today)

Felix the Cat (1922)

Secondary Sources:

-Mass media in a mass society: myth and reality/Author: Richard Hoggart

-Television as an instrument of Terror/Author: Arthur Asa Berges

-Sesame Street and the reform of children's television / Robert W. Morrow. Publisher Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.

-Taking sides: clashing views on controversial issues in mass media and society /Author: Allison Alexander